Yes, and it's ranked first in this study [1] of 11 different national health care models.

[1] https://interactives.commonwealthfund.org/2017/july/mirror-m...

Try getting mental health appointments through the NHS. Mental health “services” in the UK are a travesty given the so-called commitment to “universal” care.

One big problem is that we've created a culture where there is literally nothing else other than labor and productivity, literally for productivity's sake. So when we run out of meaningful, productive jobs for everyone, people get depressed because we've drilled into their heads that if you're not being productive, you're worthless.

We need to create a society that values happiness over productivity and efficiency. It means not stigmatizing "laziness". It means not punishing doing something for its intellectual sake rather than for profit or productivity.

Basically, we need to start to discard the 20th century models of capitalism and communism and start focusing on what we want the 21st century to be about.

Opioids are also a cheaper fix to chronic pain problems than extensive therapy. And then when it gets too expensive to get prescription drugs heroin is cheaper.

Are opioids actually an epidemic when measured as a cause of death? 64,000 annually in the US (2016.) That’s not even in the top ten of causes of death.

Unfortunately I was a few minutes too late to direct this reply to the right place before it got eaten by flags.

Regardless, if anyone here thinks that the character "Thanos" would ever make a good exemplar among humans, then I encourage them to watch this rebuttal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV18Xx5EkaE